Summer World War I Poems

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As allies falter from his Blitzkrieg force,
the blood of British sons infuse the sand.
They pray their brothers front the Channel’s course
for they have failed to...

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in the hammock of summer
across the Channel
bees are buzzing...

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I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the temperature kept rising all day; I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the...

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I am running the Sconset bluff path.
I go past darkened houses,
black out curtains hanging,
past Linda Thomas and Jolene Baer
who are chasing rabbits into the privet...

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Japan At War

Japan wages war
winds bring clouds lullabying
Mount Fuji to sleep.
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Note:  ...

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Remember those days, long ago,
When friends would come to call?
October was a good time, hazy
(Indian summer) anyway, in the fall
After the harvest was in.
The kids...

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Red flags I predict summer Camp
At war with those daycare children
In open meadows wrestling on the grounds
Playground wars, water filled balloons and dirt and mud...

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I'd have loved to see the bluebirds fly
above the white chalk-cliffs of Dover--
and as they were blithely soaring over,
immersed in thought I'd lie
in calm repose...

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They're starting to gather in small clusters
fed up with being shackled by of a 5 star virus.
Letting a redrum rat control how they live and...

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Summer Haze
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells...

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What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Yamaguchi Seishi haiku modern English translations

Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt.
—Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

Ceaseless chaos—
ice floes clash
in the Soya straits.
—Yamaguchi...

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Thinking of all that Memorial Day brings,
our flag, our country, who we are,  "let freedom ring".

Many veterans are remembered, this day,
they march through our...

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They were young then, now they would be old men looking across an empty beach, the sun at their back; for many this would be...

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